Archive for September, 2007

The Handbook of Contraception by Donna Shoupe, M.D., professor in the USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is now available from the library website. Content of the book is also searchable through the website’s Health Sciences Multi-eBook Search.

For Surgery Information, Link to AccessSurgery

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

AccessSurgery is an important new integrated online resource that provides medical students, surgical residents, and practicing surgeons with quick answers from trusted sources. Organized around the ACGME’s (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) mandate for a Core Curriculum, AccessSurgery delivers content in context.
Select a topic or procedure and view related content from:

Surgical Videos: Columbia University College […]

Google Offers Biomed Central Shortcut

Friday, September 14th, 2007

If you search BioMed Central publications regularly or are interested in exploring a new open access research tool, try the BioMed Central button for your Google Toolbar. This shortcut expedites searches of BioMed Central’s archive of full text open access research articles and provides a quick way to access the BioMed Central homepage.

The library’s plaza level Learning Resources Center will be closed for renovation from September 18 to the first week of October.  The library’s technology support staff will temporarily relocate to the upper level Webb Room where they will be available in person, by telephone at their current phone numbers, or by email. 
The LRC will reopen […]

Protein Lounge is an extensive gene/protein web portal proving access to ten databases covering major model organisms, and nine molecular and bioinformatics research tools useful for research and teaching.
Key Protein Lounge databases include 

The Pathway Database, containing a comprehensive collection of illustrated signal transduction pathways that are interactively connected to the protein database as well […]

Exam Master Expands

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Exam Master Online recently added over 350 new medical science questions to its USMLE and medical Specialty Board products. Many of these questions include references for further study and reviews. Exam Master tracks study and provides timed practice tests for USMLE Steps 1, 2 & 3, and Certification review for internal medicine, family practice, general […]